student research symposium

The Department of Languages, Philosophy &
Communication Studies
Presents
The 11th Annual
STUDENT RESEARCH
SYMPOSIUM
Friday April 25, 2014
4:00-6:15 PM
Old Main
SESSIONS 4:00-5:00 PM
SESSION 1, ROOM 115: COMMUNICATING THE
ENVIRONMENT: Persuasive Strategies and Tactics in Contemporary
Environmental Issues
Moderator: Jen Peeples
Danielle Manley, Oregon Wild and the Modern Timber Wars:
Investigating the Communication Strategies of an Environmental
Advocacy Group
Caitlyn Lewis, “What’s in that Bottle?”: Communicating Toxins
in Plastic
Renee Delcambre, Speaking of Toxins: An Analysis of Environmental
Communication
[Best Paper Undergraduate Student Award Winner] Paul Veridian,
Sounding the Horn: Howling about the Moral Outrage of the Politics of
the Gray Wolf
The Department of Languages, Philosophy and
Communications Studies is a unique community of scholars and
students in several diverse disciplines, including: Philosophy, Linguistics,
German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese,
Russian,
Global
Communications,
Speech
Communication,
Organizational Communication, language teaching, and more. LP&CS is
also home to IELI (Intensive English Language Institute), which serves
many international students, and the MSLT graduate program (Masters in
Second Language Teaching). LP&CS offers students many valuable
opportunities for: coursework, study abroad, student clubs, internships
and practicums, service learning, language testing, scholarships,
mentoring, and undergraduate and graduate research.
SESSION 2, ROOM 121: DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION
TEACHING
Moderator: Jessica Lee, student moderator
Aliza Kroek, How will the Three Bi-s (Bilingualism, Biliteracy, and
Biculturism) Benefit all of US and the DLI?
Yasmine Kataw, Expanding the three Bi-s in Utah with the DLI
Jennie Cross, Makae Doxey, Lorena Jiménez, Jenna Rounds, Lessons
from the Classroom
SESSION 3, ROOM 201: ROMANTICISM
Moderator: Claudia Schwabe
Shaw Foster, Food Production in Brazil: Looking into the Past to
Understand the Present
Kylie Johnson, Nature in Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism
Matthew Walker, Romanticism in Fantasy Fiction and Fairy Tales
SESSION 7, ROOM 304: WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND GENDER
ISSUES IN SPANISH LITERATURE
Moderator: David Richter
Kaitlyn Sprouse, Typography in Romanticism and Modernity
Trenidy Thomas, The Significant Romantic
SESSION 4, ROOM 203: IN OTHER WORDS: LITERARY
TRANSLATION IN PORTUGUESE
Moderator: Marcus Brasileiro
Roundtable panel discussion with students: Jason Jensen, Matthew
Jenson, Spencer Seely, Luke Wilson, Michael Wooley.
SESSION 5, ROOM 207: FRENCH STUDIES I
Moderator: Sarah Gordon
Maddie McPherson, Representations of Nostalgia in French Music
Garrett Robison, The Development of French Rap Music
Kathryn Christian, Past and Present Interpretations of Women
Represented in Hispanic Poetry
Braden Clinger, ‘Yo tengo menos estatura:’ Género, sexualidad y
matrimonio en Bodas de sangre de Federico García Lorca
Aaron Oborn, La búsqueda del escape: ‘Casa de verano’ de Nuria Amat
SESSION 8, ROOM 326: IDENTITY, MARGINALITY, AND
ACCULTURATION IN US LATINA/O LITERATURE: Aculturación e
Identidad en la Literatura Puertorriqueña
Moderator: Crescencio López-González
Jorri Falslev, Aculturación e identidad en Casi una mujer de Esmeralda
Santiago
Jenna Jérez, La niña-esclava: una exploración del feminismo en Casi
una mujer de Esmeralda Santiago
Tim Hixson, History of La French Touch
Taylor Mulford, Douce France: the Music of Charles Trenet
Marissa Shields, Edith Piaf and WWII
Benjamín Child, Una identidad transitoria: análisis de Casi una mujer de
Esmeralda Santiago
Tanner Ballard, La identidad cultural en Casi una mujer de Esmeralda
Santiago
SESSION 6, ROOM 301: BRAZILIAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Moderator: Cacilda Rêgo
Kelsey Anderson, Brazil: Underneath the Violence
Neil Brown, The Praieira Revolt: Understanding Brazilian History
Refreshments/Break at 5:00 – 5:15 PM
in hallway by Main 225
SESSIONS 5:15-6:15 PM
SESSION 9, ROOM 225: JAPANESE STUDIES
Moderator: Atsuko Neely
SESSION 11, ROOM 201: GERMAN STUDIES II: ROMANTICISM,
REALISM, AND BEYOND
Moderator: Doris McGonagill
Elizabeth Cannon, Es Spricht das Herzen An
Andrew Merritt, Miyamoto Musashi
Morgan Anderberg, Literature as Historical Contextualization
Jade Maurer, Entrance Examinations in Japan
Jason Ellis, Literature in the Media/Die Literatur in den Medien
Caroline Tarbet, Ketsueki-gata: Blood Types and Japan
Erik Ingram, Try To Make It Real: German Realism and the Music of
Bruce Springsteen
Joseph Horner, Low Birth Rates in Japan: The Root of the Dooming
Trend
Clay Marsh, “A Person’s A Person No Matter How Small:” Dr. Seuss’s
Apology to Japan
SESSION 10, ROOM 121 5:15-6:30 pm: TRANSLATING AND
TEACHING CHINESE: Readings and Reflections
Moderator: Li Guo
Isaac Hansen, Translating Folktales from and into Chinese: The golden
Hairpins and Rapunzel
Justin Van Noy, Translating Chinese Short Stories: “A Tale of My
Grandpa”
Aaron Hall, Translating Dialogues in Chinese Films: Scenes from
Casablanca
Robert Deutsch and Joshua Lynn, Translating Republican Chinese
Poetry: Ao Di and Zhong Dingwen
[Best Paper Graduate Student Award Winner] Fred Poole,
Approaches to Chinese Character Instruction in the Communicative
Classroom (with the participation of undergraduates Heidi Cisney, Tesha
Edwards, Justin Van Noy).
SESSION 12, ROOM 203: WAR, POWER, AND ASSASSINATION:
A Rhetorical Look at Popular Discourse
Moderator: Jen Peeples
Luz María Carreno, Jenni Rivera: The Fallen Diva and Her Ideology
of Power
Kelsey Jackson, Uncovering Christian Ideology in a Viral YouTube
Video: Ideological Analysis of Matthew Cordle’s “I Killed a Man”
Speech
Kayla Arrington, A Hush ver urope: A Cluster Critique of Winston
Churchill
Derek Holyoak, Making Bad Good: Narrative Influence in Steinbeck’s
“Trial of Arthur Miller”
Ryan J. Allred, Strategic esponses to Popular Assassinations:
Discovering a Genre Among Political ulogies
SESSION 13, ROOM 207: GERMAN PHILOSOPHY AND BEYOND
Moderator: Harrison Kleiner
Alex Tarbet, Schopenhauer’s Blues
Alan (Gregory) Henderson, Hegel and the Internet
Taylor Halverson, A Visually Determined Deutschland
SESSION 14, ROOM 227: REAPPROPRIATIONS OF FAIRY
TALES, MYTHS, AND LEGENDS IN THE DOMINICAN SHORT
STORY
Moderator: María de Jesús Cordero
Roundtable panel discussion with students: Merinely Beltrán, Isabel
Arias Olsen, Michael Goonan, William Burton, Jaden Maw
.
SESSION 15, ROOM 301: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
Moderator: Cacilda Rêgo
Luke Wilson, A War of Words: What Determines a Global Language?
Madison Takos, Language vs. Culture: Friend or Foe?
Annie Purser, The ‘Disneyization’ of Society
Mason Harrop, Peru: From Tradition to Modernity to Globalization
SESSION 16, ROOM 304: FRENCH STUDIES II: MUSIC AND
LITERATURE
Moderator: Sarah Gordon
Priscilla Thompson, Songs of the French Revolution (1789-1799)
Meghan Kershner, Thérèse Desqueyroux: Murderer or Martyr
Lusine Dokhoyan, Mon Hit-Parade
SESSION 17, ROOM 326: IDENTITY, MARGINALITY, AND
ACCULTURATION IN US LATINA/O LITERATURE (Desigualdad,
Marginación y Educación en la Literatura Latina/o Estadounidense)
AND MEXICAN BALLADS
Moderator: Crescencio López-González
Evan Folland, La pobreza, un hoyo inescapable: un análisis de El
vendedor de sueños de Ernesto Quiñonez
Cecilia Vargas, Los negocios ilícitos en El vendedor de sueños de
Ernesto Quiñónez
Matthew Greenhalgh, Narcocorridos: Mexican Counter-Hegemonic
Ballads
Special Thanks to:
Scott Bates, Associate VP for Undergraduate and
Graduate Research and RGS
Brad Hall, Department Head LPCS
Sarah Gordon, Associate Department Head LPCS
(symposium organizer)
Darla Moore, Kathy McKee, Suzann Winn,
Vivian Guh, and Nate Henrie
Faculty: Marcus Brasileiro, María de Jesús Cordero, Li
Guo, Robin Heaton, Charlie Huenemann, Christa Jones,
Harrison Kleiner, Crescencio López-González, Doris
McGonagill, Atsuko Neely, Jen Peeples, Cacilda Rêgo,
David Richter, Claudia Schwabe, María-Luisa SpicerEscalante, Koyin Sung.